81 - Unfriended: Dark Web

Eavesdropping at the Movies · Aug 17, 2018 · 41m

Designed entirely to simulate the desktop interface of a Macbook, Unfriended: Dark Web enthusiastically adapts modern fears of surveillance and digital stalking to the horror genre (drawing on the style of 2014's Unfriended, to which this is a sequel). It's a stylistic achievement that never once feels unconvincing, even if the route the plot takes is far from unpredictable. We discuss the way the film hides its most graphic elements and is able to create tension and horror from the very opposite, and the wonderful evocation of distracted attention, with the main character jumping between…